If anything Nostr is ever going to go :AirQuoteLeft: viral :AirQuoteRight:, it's some set of Communities that happen to use the protocol.
Not a Nostr whatever-clone app.
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Because most don't value free speech, they value entertainment and convenience more.
Let them. Nostr can never win over the mindless-scroll crowd.
It's the most awesome solution for niche communities though. Solve their problems instead, and you'll see users.
Free speech is a weird thing to strive for btw. Literally an oxymoron. Speech is adherence to the vague rules of language (depending on the community you're in), if not it's just brabbling.
Likewise, the most realistic thing we can go for is letting people freely engage with different interoperable communities that each set their own rules without losing that interoperability, making them more like a language.
And the fun side of it they might already using it on their private relays 🙂
Yes a Reddit-clone app 😂
Por favor nooo.
"I'll just vibe code it. It will work fine and I'm sure nobody tried before, riiiight :padme: ?"
You can't look at the current needs of niche communities and then think copying Reddit is a good idea.
Nobody is waiting for a dEcEnTrALiZeD version of that.
Moderation is the main value prop there. So if you don't see how Nostr can do moderation better (and add opportunity to it), it's a waste of time.
Wrong take. Of course you can look at the current needs of niche communities and think copying Reddit is a good idea.
I know plenty of people waiting on it, and multiple building it (including myself).
Does it need to be rebuilt e2e in its exactness? No. But what do people want from a decentralized reddit? It's community control. The thing you're hinting at.
Why can't nostr do moderation better?
All I hear is defeatism in a world that needs reddit clones.
I :110percent: think Nostr can do moderation better. And make it interoperable, and make it the easiest thing to integrate into your existing website/app/project/... and work with literally content type the community needs (way beyond forum posts), etc...
But, getting that right makes you end up with a solution that barely resembles Reddit any longer. That's my point.
It means different UX and UI choices for like 80% of the thing.
Not telling some LLMs to make "Reddit but on relays and with zaps".
What and how are you building? 👀
User Interface is a depreciating asset. The social graph is the store of value.
Generic clones suffer from negative convexity; they replicate the noise without the network effect.
True value accrues only when niche communities utilize the protocol as an immutable settlement layer for speech.